Crouching Mule, Hidden Overlord

These are modified Mule dropship designs I'm thinking of having my unit use instead of the Overlord they have currently. What I basically did was convert the Mule's three cargo bays into an internal loadout mimicing the Overlord (so that I don't need more than one dropship to carry a battalion) and rounded out the space with births to house my unit's personnel and some marines to guard against boarding. Everything else I kept the same save for the crew, food, and lifeboat values.

Yes, I can see other units wanting easy access to covert transport using this design too, so while it may be tasked to my unit, Tengo Aerospace might be allowed to sell at least the modified design to any faction that wanted them.

Unless factions can convert the interior without needing a shipyard, but then I don't think that's possible.

BTW, are my small pulses in the right arcs for dealing with infantry? Because that's what they are meant for. Then again I might have flamers for fun factor.

Cargo Bays are already scaled to fit BattleMechs (consider that LoaderMech Industrial Mechs are the same general size as battlemechs.)

Principle (I would go so far as to say sole) difference between a "BattleMech Bay", "Vehicle Bay", and "Cargo Bay" are the associated Unit Crew Quarters (Vehicle and Mech) that is factored into the mass {but not necessarily in the same location}, and the Repair Equipment that is ancored to the wall of the Mech bay.

the upshot of this rambling is that there is not all that much (in universe) that would prohibit a unit from converting a cargo hauler to a mech or vehicle hauler (or vice versa).

The sole issue is whither or not extra atmospheric dropping of mechs would be possible.... if Dropchutes (as in tubes) then the conversion becomes more extensive... but then again cocooning all the mechs and then popping the doors on a voided Mech bay would probably have the same affect.

Christopher Robin Perkins

It is my opinion that all statements should be questioned, digested, disected, tasted, and then either spit out or adopted... RHIP is not a god given shield